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title: Te Whaka-raupo is the ancient name of Port Cooper or Lyttelton Harbo… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Te Whaka-raupo is the ancient name of Port Cooper or Lyttelton Harbour. Who acts: Whaka raupo. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and Their Names., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 66

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Te Whaka-raupo is the ancient name of Port Cooper or Lyttelton Harbour.

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**Who acts:** Whaka raupo · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** ancient name

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and Their Names.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whaka raupo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73766:10:66
# text = Te Whaka-raupo is the ancient name of Port Cooper or Lyttelton Harbour.
1	Te	te	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
2	Whaka	Whaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	raupo	raupo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	Cooper	Cooper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Lyttelton	Lyttelton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	Harbour	Harbour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Whaka raupo | the ancient name |  |  |  | of Port or Lyttelton | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Project Gutenberg book 73766 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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